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A U.S. Army veteran himself, Johnathon Melamed ’25 prioritized supporting his fellow student veterans, all while managing his own small business, supporting his family, and revitalizing his community.
more informationEnjoy highlights from the Commencement Convocation Ceremony celebrating the Southwestern University Class of 2025.
more informationWith computer-aided design and 3D printing skills increasingly in demand across a variety of industries, Southwestern University students will soon have another avenue to sharpen their technical knowledge.
more informationSamuel Hoffman ’27 and Ethan Wilcox ’26 were each awarded $40,000 scholarships from The Sumners Foundation for their studies at Southwestern University.
more informationSouthwestern’s new Certificate in Legal Studies is designed to prepare students to engage with questions of the law in today’s society by exploring the applications, contexts, and consequences of law.
more informationSouthwestern students will soon have the opportunity to study abroad at Universidad de la Libertad in Mexico City.
more informationSouthwestern and Texas A&M are teaming up to provide opportunities for SU students interested in pursuing graduate business programs at TAMU.
more informationPre-nursing graduates from Southwestern will now have the opportunity to earn their Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing in as little as 12 months.
more informationAfter nearly a decade of bonding over patty melts and honey bbq chicken strip sandwiches, the Southwestern University football team’s offensive line recently became the star of a national Whataburger marketing campaign.
more informationPillars in the Georgetown community, the Brightwells left a $1 million estate gift to Southwestern University.
more informationMilitary Friendly® has honored Southwestern with a Silver Award to recognize the University’s inclusivity efforts for the military community.
more informationA U.S. Army veteran himself, Johnathon Melamed ’25 prioritized supporting his fellow student veterans, all while managing his own small business, supporting his family, and revitalizing his community.
more informationEnjoy highlights from the Commencement Convocation Ceremony celebrating the Southwestern University Class of 2025.
more informationWith computer-aided design and 3D printing skills increasingly in demand across a variety of industries, Southwestern University students will soon have another avenue to sharpen their technical knowledge.
more informationSamuel Hoffman ’27 and Ethan Wilcox ’26 were each awarded $40,000 scholarships from The Sumners Foundation for their studies at Southwestern University.
more informationSouthwestern’s new Certificate in Legal Studies is designed to prepare students to engage with questions of the law in today’s society by exploring the applications, contexts, and consequences of law.
more informationSouthwestern students will soon have the opportunity to study abroad at Universidad de la Libertad in Mexico City.
more informationSouthwestern and Texas A&M are teaming up to provide opportunities for SU students interested in pursuing graduate business programs at TAMU.
more informationPre-nursing graduates from Southwestern will now have the opportunity to earn their Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing in as little as 12 months.
more informationAfter nearly a decade of bonding over patty melts and honey bbq chicken strip sandwiches, the Southwestern University football team’s offensive line recently became the star of a national Whataburger marketing campaign.
more informationPillars in the Georgetown community, the Brightwells left a $1 million estate gift to Southwestern University.
more informationMilitary Friendly® has honored Southwestern with a Silver Award to recognize the University’s inclusivity efforts for the military community.
more informationA U.S. Army veteran himself, Johnathon Melamed ’25 prioritized supporting his fellow student veterans, all while managing his own small business, supporting his family, and revitalizing his community.
more informationEnjoy highlights from the Commencement Convocation Ceremony celebrating the Southwestern University Class of 2025.
more informationWith computer-aided design and 3D printing skills increasingly in demand across a variety of industries, Southwestern University students will soon have another avenue to sharpen their technical knowledge.
more informationSamuel Hoffman ’27 and Ethan Wilcox ’26 were each awarded $40,000 scholarships from The Sumners Foundation for their studies at Southwestern University.
more informationSouthwestern’s new Certificate in Legal Studies is designed to prepare students to engage with questions of the law in today’s society by exploring the applications, contexts, and consequences of law.
more informationSouthwestern students will soon have the opportunity to study abroad at Universidad de la Libertad in Mexico City.
more informationSouthwestern and Texas A&M are teaming up to provide opportunities for SU students interested in pursuing graduate business programs at TAMU.
more informationPre-nursing graduates from Southwestern will now have the opportunity to earn their Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing in as little as 12 months.
more informationAfter nearly a decade of bonding over patty melts and honey bbq chicken strip sandwiches, the Southwestern University football team’s offensive line recently became the star of a national Whataburger marketing campaign.
more informationPillars in the Georgetown community, the Brightwells left a $1 million estate gift to Southwestern University.
more informationMilitary Friendly® has honored Southwestern with a Silver Award to recognize the University’s inclusivity efforts for the military community.
more informationA U.S. Army veteran himself, Johnathon Melamed ’25 prioritized supporting his fellow student veterans, all while managing his own small business, supporting his family, and revitalizing his community.
more informationEnjoy highlights from the Commencement Convocation Ceremony celebrating the Southwestern University Class of 2025.
more informationWith computer-aided design and 3D printing skills increasingly in demand across a variety of industries, Southwestern University students will soon have another avenue to sharpen their technical knowledge.
more informationSamuel Hoffman ’27 and Ethan Wilcox ’26 were each awarded $40,000 scholarships from The Sumners Foundation for their studies at Southwestern University.
more informationSouthwestern’s new Certificate in Legal Studies is designed to prepare students to engage with questions of the law in today’s society by exploring the applications, contexts, and consequences of law.
more informationSouthwestern students will soon have the opportunity to study abroad at Universidad de la Libertad in Mexico City.
more informationSouthwestern and Texas A&M are teaming up to provide opportunities for SU students interested in pursuing graduate business programs at TAMU.
more informationPre-nursing graduates from Southwestern will now have the opportunity to earn their Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing in as little as 12 months.
more informationAfter nearly a decade of bonding over patty melts and honey bbq chicken strip sandwiches, the Southwestern University football team’s offensive line recently became the star of a national Whataburger marketing campaign.
more informationPillars in the Georgetown community, the Brightwells left a $1 million estate gift to Southwestern University.
more informationMilitary Friendly® has honored Southwestern with a Silver Award to recognize the University’s inclusivity efforts for the military community.
more informationA U.S. Army veteran himself, Johnathon Melamed ’25 prioritized supporting his fellow student veterans, all while managing his own small business, supporting his family, and revitalizing his community.
more informationEnjoy highlights from the Commencement Convocation Ceremony celebrating the Southwestern University Class of 2025.
more informationSamuel Hoffman ’27 and Ethan Wilcox ’26 were each awarded $40,000 scholarships from The Sumners Foundation for their studies at Southwestern University.
more informationAfter nearly a decade of bonding over patty melts and honey bbq chicken strip sandwiches, the Southwestern University football team’s offensive line recently became the star of a national Whataburger marketing campaign.
more informationPillars in the Georgetown community, the Brightwells left a $1 million estate gift to Southwestern University.
more informationThe field at the new multi-purpose sports complex will be named in honor of Kevin and Elizabeth Dice for their generous donation to the facility.
more informationErika (Sehne) Munch, M.D. ’04 has helped hundreds of patients experience the joys of parenthood through her role as a reproductive endocrinologist at Texas Fertility Center.
more informationSouthwestern’s unique approach to a liberal arts education, paired with passionate faculty and small class sizes, has put countless students on a path to success in law.
more informationA new era for Pirates men’s basketball is underway as Matt Streich takes the helm, bringing over a decade of coaching experience at the NCAA Division III level to Southwestern.
more informationGarey Chair and Professor of Mathematics Alison Marr uses her own experiences as a female mathematician to inspire the next generation of learners while also playing a pivotal role in enhancing the Southwestern community.
more informationAfter celebrating 20 years with the American Heart Association and moving into a new national role, political science major Eric Batch ’97 looks back at his time at Southwestern and how it inspired him to change the world.
more informationAssistant Professor of Anthropology Naomi Reed organized and supported the submission, reception, and presentation of the panel “Salons, Skateboarding, and Tabletop Gaming: Stories of ‘Alternative’ Intersectional Gender Expression in Recreational Communities,” presented on April 4 at the 2025 Southwestern Anthropology Association Conference in Pomona, CA. During this panel, anthropology and classics double major Marley Sensenderfer ’25 chaired the session and presented the paper talk “Roll for Stereotypes: D&D and Gender Performativity Tabletop role-playing games,” anthropology major Emma French ’25 presented the paper talk “Gender and Skateboarding Culture,” and anthropology and environmental studies double major Rose Reed ’25 presented the paper talk “White Beauty Standards in a Hair and Nail Salon.” This panel was a collaboration of three student anthropology capstone research projects that deconstruct intersectional manifestations of gender in public space via insider (or native) ethnographic analysis. More information on the session and the conference can be found here.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Naomi Reed organized a panel titled “Blackness and Whiteness in the Americas: Race Across Space and Time” for the American Anthropological Association’s 2024 annual meeting in Tampa, FL on November 21. Professor of Anthropology Melissa Johnson served as the chair for the panel. During this session, Dr. Reed presented the paper “Black Surrogacy and the Sugar Land 95: How White Officials in Sugar Land, Texas use Black Subjectivity to Fabricate a Social Justice Image,” Dr. Johnson presented the paper “Emerging Racial Categories and their Socio-ecological Context on the British Coast of Central America in the Late 1700s,” and undergraduate honors anthropology student Constanza Cameron ’24 presented the paper “Chilean Whiteness: Affective Dispositions Regarding Race and Class.” Alumnus Zacharia Arifi ’24 presented the poster presentation “1760 Hors Place: Discursive Identity Formation of the Franco-Kabyle Diaspora and the PostKabyle” as well. Abstracts of the panel, the papers, and the poster can be found here.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Naomi Reed (panel organizer) and Professor of Anthropology Melissa Johnson (panel chair), along with two SCOPE undergraduate students, Rose Reed ’25 and Kalista Esquivel ’26, presented their panel “Unsilencing the Past: How Oral Histories Give Voice to Black and Latinx Students at Southwestern University” on April 18 at the Southwestern Social Science Association Conference in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Johnson discussed the foundational history of the University and the founding of The SU Racial History Project. Dr. Reed discussed the liberatory potential of oral histories and why this particular method is key to unsilencing the voices of the oppressed at a predominantly white institution. Rose presented the oral history of Lynette Philips, a Black woman who attended Southwestern University between 1980-1984, played basketball for the university, and was very active on campus. Kalista presented the oral history of Eva Mendiola, a Mexican-American woman who attended Southwestern University from 1972-1975 and founded the volleyball team, which was the first women’s sports team on campus. Future plans include submitting these student papers to a special issue of an oral history journal. The conference program can be viewed here.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Naomi Reed and investigative journalist Brittney Martin received a 2024 Gracie Award for Best Investigative Feature [Radio ‐ Nationally Syndicated Non‐Commercial] for their podcast series “Sugar Land.” The Gracie Awards celebrate women in media. More info can be found here.
—April 2024Assistant Professor of Anthropology Naomi Reed was invited to present at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration Historical Studies of Texas Symposium on February 9th and 10th in Austin, Texas. On the roundtable “Community-Based Scholarship,” she explored who gets to be “community” when decisions are being made about forgotten Black cemeteries such as The Bullhead Camp Cemetery (the current resting place of the Sugar Land 95). She discussed how the Texas Antiquities Code requires community input when remains are discovered and how the broader Black descendant community of the 95 has been ignored, thus resulting in subpar memorialization efforts by the local school district that owns the land the bodies are buried on.
—February 2024